[rurban]

you have to register yourself at the finanzamt and ensure that you qualify as free, which is doing system IT Services, certainly not application iT services. because then you have to register as Gewerbe, and then you have to pay them the russian rates, about 30% or so. for this rate they will protect you. something like that.

TK is fine, I used them.

[matriguy]

what do you mean to "pay them the russian rates, about 30% or so". And why do i need to register as Finanzamt. My plan is to call TK and have direct debot from my account every month for Health insurance, Arbeitlos insurance, care insurance and pension insurance. This all comes more that 2000 Euros per month. And on top to file tax every quarter, for this my tax consultant will help. Also my wife is working with tax class 5, hence we will file the tax together. Any thing i am missing here in this plan?

[rurban]

yes, your initial taxid, classification and hence gewerbesteuer. that's the hard part.

the online tax filing via Elster can be done by yourself, yearly.

TK is trivial.

[matriguy]

My tax consultant said, as you are going it get a fixed income from US company, this will not be a "Freelancer" job. Hence no need to do any special registration with Finanzamt. All this is new for my tax consultant as well, may be he is wrong. Do you have any reference for tax consultant. happy to take help. or any content which explains the process, happy to read/watch?